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Item Details
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| Heading: |
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| Author: |
Bacon, Francis |
| Title: |
The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
J. Newton |
| Date: |
1696 |
| Item # : |
200983 |
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| Sale Number |
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402 |
| Lot Number |
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16 |
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| Fine Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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04/30/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| [viii], 167, [2]; [6], [1] blank, 21; [1] blank, [9], 1, 17-123, [1] black, [4] pp. Lacking the final leaf of advertisements. Title page is a cancel and possibly provided from another copy. 7¾x4¾, period calf with modern rebacking. |
| An attractive 17th century edition of Bacon's timeless essays. One of five variant imprints of this edition. Wing (2nd ed.) B295. |
| Condition: |
| Leather scuffed, title leaf trimmed and with several small holes; light foxing; very good. |
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